Japanese Firemen’s Coats (19th century)

Glossary of Censored Words from a 1919 Treatise on Love

Frances Power Cobbe’s “The Peak in Darien: The Riddle of Death” (1882)

Sarah Goodridge’s Beauty Revealed (1828)

Nooks and Corners of Old New York (1899)

John Gould’s Mammals of Australia (1845–63)

The Jester (1908)

Six Plays of the Yiddish Theatre (1916)

François de Nomé’s Imaginary Ruins

George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature (1864)

W. W. Denslow’s Illustrations for the Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

Adalbert Stifter’s Rock Crystal (1846)

Urania’s Mirror; or, a View of the Heavens (circa 1825)

Eskimo Folktales (1913)

“Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World”: The Aurora Borealis in Art

The Cubies’ ABC (1913)

Yggdrasil: The Sacred Ash Tree of Norse Mythology

The Human Pyramids of Juste De Juste (ca. 1540)

D. A. Rovinskii’s Collection of Russian Lubki (18th–19th Century)

The Geometric Landscapes of Lorenz Stoer (1567)

John Reynolds’ Book of Murder Tales (1621–1635)

Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journal of a Few Months’ Residence in Portugal (1847)

Persian Demons from a Book of Magic and Astrology (1921)

Various Apocalyptic Scenes from the Prophetic Messenger (ca. 1827–61)